The Nova Scotia-born author is a nominee for the $10,000 prize for her short story collection This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories (Hamish Hamilton Canada).

Skibsrud won the $50,000 Giller in November 2010 for The Sentimentalists, which is among three Canadian titles on the short list for this year’s Commonwealth Book Prize.

Other finalists for this year’s Danuta Gleed honour, which recognizes the best first English-language collection of short fiction by a Canadian author, include Jessica Westhead of Toronto for And Also Sharks (Cormorant Books).

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